The quotations of

Dwight D. Eisenhower

President of the United States from 1953 to 1961

1890–1969

71 quotes, most often on War & Peace, Politics and Freedom. Part of the U.S. Presidents collection.

Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired, signifies in the final sense a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and are not clothed.
The Chance for Peace (1953)
- Guns
- War & Peace
You do not lead by hitting people over the head — that’s assault, not leadership.
- Leadership
Leadership is the art of getting someone else to do something you want done because he wants to do it.
- Leadership
A sense of humor is part of the art of leadership, of getting along with people, of getting things done.
- Leadership
- Risk
The supreme quality for leadership is unquestionable integrity. Without it, no real success is possible, no matter whether it is on a section gang, a football field, in an army, or in an office.
- Leadership
A people that values its privileges above its principles soon loses both.
Dwight Eisenhower’s First Inaugural Address (1953)
- Freedom
I hate war as only a soldier who has lived it can, only as one who has seen its brutality, its stupidity.
Speech in Ottawa (10 January 1946), published in Eisenhower Speaks: Dwight D. Eisenhower in His Messages and Speeches (1948) edited by Rudolph L. Treuenfels
- War & Peace
If you want total security, go to prison. There you’re fed, clothed, given medical care and so on. The only thing lacking… is freedom.
- Freedom
An intellectual is a man who takes more words than necessary to tell more than he knows.
- Clever Jabs
- Intelligence
I would rather try to persuade a man to go along, because once I have persuaded him he will stick. If I scare him, he will stay just as long as he is scared, and then he is gone.
- Leadership
Few women, I fear, have had such reason as I have to think the long sad years of youth were worth living for the sake of middle age.
- Age
- Women
History does not long entrust the care of freedom to the weak or the timid.
Dwight Eisenhower’s First Inaugural Address (1953)
- Freedom
I can think of nothing more boring for the American people than to have to sit in their living rooms for a whole half hour looking at my face on their television screens.
- Comedy
Farming looks mighty easy when your plow is a pencil and you’re a thousand miles from the corn field.
- Work
If men can develop weapons that are so terrifying as to make the thought of global war include almost a sentence for suicide, you would think that man’s intelligence and his comprehension… would include also his ability to find a peaceful solution.
- War & Peace

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